Paul Graham
Born in 1964
paulgraham.com
Paul Graham is a renowned essayist, programmer, and programming language designer.
He co-developed Viaweb, the first web-based application, which Yahoo acquired in 1998.
Graham created an influential statistical spam filter and is currently working on a new programming language called Arc.
He co-founded Y Combinator, a startup accelerator.
Graham has authored multiple books on programming and startups, including "On Lisp," "ANSI Common Lisp," and "Hackers & Painters." He holds degrees from Cornell and Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and in Florence.
His website, paulgraham.com, received over 10 million page views in 2008, demonstrating his significant influence in the tech community.
